Florian Hämmerle becomes CPO at Watson
Florian Hämmerle will become Chief Product Officer and member of the Executive Board at news portal watson as of August 1, 2019. He succeeds Oliver Schibli, who left the company in February. who left the company in February.
The 28-year-old Vorarlberg native studied software engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Dornbirn and the Technological Institute of Crete and worked for the Lovely Systems agency as a project manager for several years. In this role, he was jointly responsible for various digital projects at AZ Medien, such as the further development of the newspapers' news portals, the development of the Petitio petition platform and the relaunch of the radio and TV pages. Most recently, Hämmerle managed various media and e-commerce projects with his own digital agency.
"Florian Hämmerle's experience in digital product development of media offerings and his deep technological understanding make him the ideal fit for the job. I look forward to working with him," said Michael Wanner, CEO of Watson, in a statement. As of August 1, 2019, the watson Executive Board will consist of Michael Wanner, CEO, Tarkan Özküp, Chief Commercial Officer, Maurice Thiriet, Editor-in-Chief, and Florian Hämmerle, Chief Product Officer.
